HELP ME START HER UP PALEESE!!

[WAHOONBOX]

HERE IS THE SITUATION......

23 FT GRADY ....NEW TWIN 140 SUZUKIS .....WITH OVER FIVE YRS WARRANTY LEFT....LESS THAN 160 HRS ON THEM....OIL HAS BEEN CHANGED ONCE


BOTH TANKS WERE FULL AS THE RIG WENT OFFSHORE FRIDAY...UPON THE RETURN THE BOAT APPROACHED THE FLOATING DOCK (50 YARDS TO GO...) SHE RAN OUT OF FUEL IN THE ONE TANK , THE ORIGINAL ONE WHICH WE STARTED THE DAY WITH.......(SHOULD HAVE BEEN SWITCHED EARLIER- I KNOW) ....SO WE SWITCH TO FUEL TANK NUMBER TWO WITH ANOTHER 90 GALLONS IN HER....


ONE ENGINE FIRED RIGHT UP LIKE CLOCK WORK .......THE SECOND EGINE WOULD NOT FIRE AND JUST "MAKES A RAPID CLICKING NOISE .....LISTEN TO THE VIDEO BELOW...

ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO MY NEXT MOVE?

www.wahoonbox.com/videos/fuel.wmv

[Deep C]

Yo PDIDYBOX
Souunds like juice interrupted to engine ... Heat between battery and starter can cause less than enough juice to get through to kick her over. I'm not real familiar with the suzuki starter and how it feeds the flywheel but usually a solonoid will kick the spindle up on most motors to engage the fly. The most common cause for not getting the jump is not enough power getting through. Reason for not getting from point a to point b??? On my boat its a weekly game of hide and seek. I have very long battery cables and a lot gets lost along the way. Most comm is a loose connection back at the battery end... They can feel tight as hell butno juice? Try turning the cable underneath both positive and negative sides and see if it moves... If so undo the wing nut and retighten all over...

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Box try giving the guys at Saltwater marine here in Wilmington a call just bought a 60 suzuki 4 stroke from em they no these motors number is 910-392-7488 afriend of mine commercial shrimps and net fishes he got a 50 four strk 3 yrs ago from them they do all his work.

[ocnslr]

That sounds more like an electric fuel pump running dry than it does a starter solenoid not picking up.

I would make sure the fuel system under the cowling is well-primed before trying to start again, as the electric fuel pumps are lubricated by the fuel and don't do well when run dry.

JMHO...

brian

[gradywhite273]

I have to agree with deep, do you have battery switches on them , is one running off of one battery, and the other engine off another. Cause it sounds just like my inventory of new vehicles with dead batteries. I would definately check the battery out that the one is running off of, just a stupid question, is the bilge pump running off the same battery that this engine is ?

Tim

[flatbottom]

I would say weak battery, from what I heard. Check your connections and any new electrical add ons for a drain.

[Admin]

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[O-SEA-D]

Does sound like the battery.

You can take a screw driver and put it across the 2 posts on the silonoide. If you get the same sound its your battery.

When we hear that noise are you turning the key?

[Bodie]

Sounds like a power problem.

[BTH284]

I am going with the battery giving you a problem here Marty. Don't forget you can have plenty of voltage show up on a tester (12 to 14.8 volts) but if you ain't got the amps the engine ain't gonna turn over (load tester will tell for sure).

Good idea to try from now on cause I know you got shore power at the yacht basin. Get you a trickle charger from Walmart 1.5 to 3 amp type. Leave it hooked up on the low amp trickle 24/7 I do this all year round and have never had a problem with any of the batteries I have left hooked up. Good idea to replace batteries every 2 years or so as well.
Jawz 12 any ideas here for Box?